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Re:Krita fund has 0 corporate support by martypitt on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:29AM (#37779072)
I've been toying with an idea of some kind of "Spotify for OSS" kinda thing - where software authors can make their binaries available, provided you have an active subscription (with the Spotify for OSS service).

Funds are then distributed based on usage (trackable at the package registry).

The idea being corporates buy a single license per head, rather than dealing with lots of donations etc.

Probably lots of reasons it wouldn't work, but it's a fun thought experiment.

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Re:Krita fund has 0 corporate support by Woshiwuja on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:46AM (#37779275)
It's a good idea but that would mean companies now have to pay. And they don't like it. (unless is for useless shit nobody cares about that doesnt make your job easier, they got loads for that)
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Re:Krita fund has 0 corporate support by bee_rider on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:45PM (#37780873)
This seems like an easy way for people to accidentally change the nature of their projects from a personal hobby/community type thing to something more like a customer service type relationship, which brings a bunch of expectations regarding fitness and merchantability.
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